Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positive evidence of my tax money helping my fellow Americans, I am going to strongly object to a tax raise to be used halfway around the world. I never intended to be an isolationist or a dove but I am confused as to where the values of my Government lie...
...Flint, Mich., Negro Mayor Floyd J. McCree sadly announced that he was quitting his largely ceremonial, $9.23-a-week post because the city council had voted down an open-housing ordinance. "I'm not going to sit up here and live an equal-opportunity lie," said McCree. Flint (pop. 205,000) was the first major American city to boast a Negro mayor...
...Juliet this October will not be Dame Margot Fonteyn, 48, his matchless partner of the past five years, but a comparatively dewy Covent Garden ballerina from Rhodesia, Merle Park, 29. Could it be that the most brilliant team in modern ballet will be unhitched at last? "A big lie!" stormed Rudi. He and Dame Margot have occasionally danced with others in the past as schedules demanded. As Covent Gar den sped forward with reassurances that Rudi, 29, and Merle "are not a permanent partnership," Ballerina Park remarked unflappably that "Rudolf is marvelous," but that she has performed with British dancers...
...federal grants for agricultural-experiment stations, commercial fisheries, and the systematization of weights and measures. Schultze was a more scrupulous bookkeeper, but even his more modest reckoning includes $2.1 billion for construction of urban expressways, which hardly help and often visibly harm the poor whose neighborhoods lie in their path. Proposals for two interstate highways that would displace 20,000 of Newark's Negroes were among the most serious grievances of slum dwellers before last month's disastrous riots in that city...
Arabs now hear the Israelis' side of the war 14 hours a day on Arabic broadcasts over Radio Kol Israel. On shows such as The Truth and the Lie, old tapes of Nasser, Syria's Attassi and other Arab leaders are juxtaposed with recent statements. And now Israel, which has been slow to supply tele vision entertainment for its own citizens, has started a crash program to get an Arabic TV station in service. For the Arabs have long been avid TV fans; many more sets can be found in the conquered territories than in Israel...